O-liver lived in the hotel in a suite of small rooms, and when Atwood Jones passed that way the four men dined together as O-liver's guests.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

Give Jim my love and tell him how lucky I think he is, and how much I hope all good fortune will come to you both.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

His notion of music is transferred from harmony of sounds to harmony of life: in this he is assisted by the ambiguities of language as well as by the prevalence of Pythagorean notions.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Whereby he is repaid; for the conversation soon becomes deep, and even too deep for him; and he is fain to drop out of the race, and leave it to his idol and to the new-comer, who seems to have seen, and done, and read everything in heaven and earth, and probably bought everything also; not to mention that he would be happy to sell the said universe again, at a very cheap price, if any one would kindly take it off his hands.
— from Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley

"'Where the life is, the heart is also,' he said, 'and if the feet of Ongyatasse do not turn back from the trail they have taken, neither does his heart.'
— from The Trail Book by Mary Hunter Austin

“But I will not leave it to him, I assure you,” cried Mr. Somerville; “I never made any such promise.
— from The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children by Maria Edgeworth

Now, as I am quite sure no one else will take this view of what is the principal interest in your glorious procession of youth and hope, I thought it as well to let you know, that you might give that little panther his due importance (a little leopard, I think he is), and not suppose him a subordinate accessory!
— from The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton. Volume II by Barrington, Russell, Mrs.

Among her valuable collection of jewelry, Agnes bestowed the most audible lamentations on a splendid locket set in diamonds with her brother's hair; but her secret regrets were the deepest for a crystal scent-bottle, with a gold top set in turquoises, which Captain De Crespigny had presented on the previous evening, pretending he had lost it to her in a bet.
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair

"All they can say of the lover is, that he is a very gay man or a very bad man, and that's saying nothing new of me.
— from Night and Morning, Volume 5 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

They were literally taking their lives in their hands, in all probability facing certain death; and yet they now sat chaffing and fighting like a crowd of third-form schoolboys, talking utter, silly nonsense, and making foolish jokes that would have shamed a Frenchman in his teens.
— from El Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness